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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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526 points Stwerner | 1 comments | 19 Jul 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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Flatcircle ◴[19 Jul 25 16:30 UTC] No.44616899[source]▶
My theory on AI is it's the next iteration of google search, a better more conversational, base layer over all the information that exists on the internet.

Of course some people will lose jobs just like what happened to several industries when search became ubiquitous. (newspapers, phone books, encyclopedias, travel agents)

But IMHO this isn't the existential crisis people think it is.

It's just a tool. Smart, clever people can do lots of cool stuff with tools.

But you still have to use it,

Search has just become Chat.

You used to have to search, now you chat and it does the searching, and more!

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ivanjermakov ◴[19 Jul 25 16:39 UTC] No.44616976[source]▶
> Search has just become Chat

I think chat-like LLM interfacing is not the most efficient way. There has to be a smarter way.

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clickety_clack ◴[19 Jul 25 16:43 UTC] No.44617027[source]▶
There’s an efficient way to serve the results, and there’s an efficient way for a human to consume them, and I find LLMs to be much more efficient in terms of cognitive work done to explore and understand something than a google search. The next thing will have to beat that level of personal mental effort, and I can’t imagine what that next step would look like yet.
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aDyslecticCrow ◴[19 Jul 25 16:53 UTC] No.44617128[source]▶
I find a well-written human article or guide to be far more efficient when it exists. But if AI rehash them... then the market for those may disappear, and in the process, the AI won't be very good either without the source to summarise.
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1. clickety_clack ◴[20 Jul 25 15:36 UTC] No.44626209[source]▶
I don’t disagree with that at all, but that’s not what I’m talking about. The market for serving information goes where the people want to consume it. The old portals of the 90s gave way to search because it was easier for people to find what they wanted. LLMs give people an even easier way to find information. The downstream effects don’t factor into most people’s decision to use an LLM over source material.